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which resulted in a 16.5% pay raise while only 15% of their students are proficient if reading, more than half are not even capable of basic reading skills. meg the wall street journal wrote sooner or later we knew it would come to this since the democrats can t bring themselves to oppose union demands. they give and they gave give and they give to the unions, and eventually the bill comes due. but the question is whether any federal politician would have the gall to put the taxpayers of the nation, the federal taxpayers on the hook for those deals struck in those rooms in chicago. well, obviously, there s one by the name of president barack obama who s doing precisely that, supporting bond programs, a third of the debt in california over the past four years supported by federal be dollars. if you look at the distribution, and this president loves wealth redistribution, but if you look at the distribution of grants to states where they have unions,
but, the agreement is that i get my money first. i m the first. if it goes bankrupt, the bondholders get their money. that s contract law. it s always been that way. until barack obama. g.m. and the unions go down, the unions retire healthcare benefit trust got the billions. the bondholders for the first time in history got 5 cents on the dollar if they were lucky. now you have cities like miami and states breaking their employment contracts and the bond programs. so what do you have? you have people saying well, wait a minute, if the contract doesn t mean anything, what do bonds mean? you are out of stocks. you can t trust an american contract anymore. what is the next step? after that, i guess it s real estate. i knew a guy that owned a lot of real estate once said i used to think land would always be worth something. i don t know. i don t know anymore. you know how the real estate market is going with you, right? you try to sell your house?